May 21, 2021
"The Colours of the Palestinian Flag" by Khaled Hourani
Today I found out about watermelons as a symbol of political protest for Palestinians.
In the years following the Six Day War in 1967, it became a crime to raise a Palestinian flag in Israeli-controlled Gaza and the West Bank. To subvert the ban on the national colors, it is said that Palestinians would carry sliced watermelons through the region in a sign of protest.
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